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W. S. GODFREY.

BUTTON.

Patented May 15, 1894.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM S. GODFREY, OF PROVIDENCE, RI-I ODE ISLAND.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,946, dated May 15,1894.

Application filed July 5, 1892. Serial No. 439,001. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. GODFREY, of the city of Providence, inthe county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Buttons; and I herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in that variety ofcuff-buttons in which two oppositely-moving levers form the shoe orholding device by which the button is secured to a cuff or otherarticle.

The object of this invention is to produce a button, of the naturedescribed, in which the movement of one lever Willbe transmitted tosimultaneously move the other in an opposite direction without the useof gears.

The further object of the invention is to produce a button which will besimple in construction and durable in operation.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofthe various co-operating parts, as will be more fully describedhereinafter and pointed out in the claim. v

Figure 1 represents a side view of the improved button showing theleversin the closed position and indicating their position when spread apartto secure the cuff. Fig. 2 represents a back View of the improved buttonthe levers being spread apart. Fig. 3 represents a front view of thesame, portions thereof being broken away to more clearly show the innerconstruction. Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the head of the button.Fig. 5 represents an enlarged side view of the levers and theirconnecting and operating mechanism removed from the head.

Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In the drawings 6 indicates the head of the button which is formed ofsheet-metal, the face being ornamented in any suitable manner by adesign engraved thereon, or by a stone set therein; this head 5 has anannular flange 7 portions of the inner edge of which are cut away at 8-8to form stops into which are fitted projections stamped from the plate 9to prevent the independent rotation of the head 5. The plate 9 isstamped up to form a circular box, open at one side and having the otherside slightly convex, the central portion of this convex side being cutaway and the bearings 10-10 and 11--11 being bent up therefrom,-thelower edge of the plate 9 is bent inwardly to form the flange 12 againstwhich the ring 13 is held. Journaled in the bearings 10--10 of the plate9 are the square ends of the shaft 14 extending from which is theUshaped curved lever 15; this shaft has also a bearing-shoulder 16 and adownward inwardly-extending arm 17 near the end of which is secured thepivot 18. The square ends of the shaft 19 are journaled in the bearings1111 of the plate 9, this shaft having a bearing-shoulder 20 and acurved lever 21 adapted to move between the curved arms of the U-shapedlever 15, and extending from the lower portion of the shaft 19 is an arm22 near the end of which is secured the pivot 23,this pivot 23 and thatcarried by the arm 17 being pivotally connected by the link 24. Bearingagainst the shoulders of the shafts 1 1 and 18 is a spring 25 the endsof which are supported by the ring 13, this spring having a tendency tosiipport the levers 15 and 21 when the fiat surfaces of thebearing-shoulders 16 and 20 are brought and a downward pressure on thefree end of claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In acufi-button, the combination with the back 9 having bearings 1010 and.11-11,

5 and containing a spring 25, of the levers 15 and 21 mounted on theshafts 14 and 19 journaled in said bearings, the longitudinal shouldersl6 and 20 curvinginward from said shafts and having transverse pivots 18and 23 and to hearing against the spring 25, arms 17 and 22 1 In witness\VhGI'GOf I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM S. GODFREY.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, Jr., M. F. BLIGH.

